We spend a lot of time in Vietnam. While exploring rural areas in Vietnam we are always on the look out for people in need. So while on a hike through the hills of Mai Chau Heather and I came across a couple that could be more in need. We found this couple living all alone in a remote area of the hills. Their living conditions where beyond basic. They lived in a small pieced together shack that couldn't even keep them dry during a rain storm. I could only imaging what it must have been like during a rainstorm with no electricity in the pitch dark of the night. We could see the pain in their faces of living such a hard life. As we said goodbye to the couple we couldn't stop thinking about them. So later that day I talked to my good friends that I have made in Mai Chau and asked if there was a way that we could pull together some locals and build them a dry place to sleep. Without hesitation they said let's do it. So we said we would buy the materials needed and with the help of a handful of locals we could build them a dry place to sleep. So in 2 days they went from a hut that couldn't even keep them dry at night to a hut with a cement roof that would not let any water in. It was a crazy couple days. We had to trek up a mountain with the materials to build the hut. It didn't help that we had a rain storm that came in just when we where trying to make it up the mountain. Carrying large pieces of bamboo and cement roof panels is no easy task in the pouring rain. But we made it happen. It was so inspiring seeing all the locals that wanted to jump in to help.
